Andy Hertzfeld Quotes

I Left General Magic In 1996 To Become An Internet Hobbyist - Got A T-1 Line To My House. At One Point I Had All Four Food Banks Of The Bay Area Hosted From This House Here.

The Apple Ii Was Not Designed Like An Ordinary Product. It Used Crazy Tricks Everywhere

But Typically For A Project Like The Mac, The Size We Had Was Pretty Good. And It Has Different Stages. The Team Grows As You Have To Write Manuals And Do Testing... Though The Mac Had No Formal Testing.

I Did Some Products For The Apple Ii, Most Notably The First Small Low Cost Thermal Printer, The Silent Type.

As You Know, Microsoft Eventually Kind Of Grabbed The Gold Ring Out Of Apple's Hands, I Guess.

Apple Was Our Benefactor At Starting General Magic, But About A Year Later Decided They Would Rather Be General Magic And Tried To Make Us Blink Out Of Existence... Which We Eventually Did, But It Took A Few Years.

I Got Bitten By The Free Software Bug In February Of 1998 Around The Time Of The Mozilla Announcement.

We Were Developing An Innovative Personal Information Manager Called Chandler But A Couple Years Ago I Took Off From That To Do A Project Writing Down My Memoirs Essentially, Reminiscing About The Development Of The Macintosh.

Scotty Heard That I Was Thinking About Quitting Apple Because Of His Actions, So He Called Me Into His Office And Asked What It Would Take For Me To Stay? I Said, Maybe If I Could Work On The Mac Project, Which Steve Had Just Taken Over From Jef Raskin.

I Started Working At Apple About 18 Months After I Bought My Apple Ii

I Knew The Apple Ii Was Great When I Bought It, But As I Dug Into The Details It Just Completely Blew Me Away The Creative Artistic Approach That The Designers Had Taken.

A Lot Of People Thought Steve Jobs Was A Ceo Of Apple But He Never Was Until He Came Back To Apple In 1997.